Pro Driver Breaks Down 18 Driving Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

I'll race with these things hi my name is Wyatt Knox you may recognize Wyatt from my previous wired video I'm the special projects director here at the team O'Neil Riley school and today I'm breaking down clips for movies and television about driving roll clip drifting faster the Furious Tokyo Drift [Music] so the scenario that we've got in this movie is that they're racing up through a parking garage to get to the top level any racing driver would tell you that this is sort of nonsense if you're trying to get up as quickly as possible you wouldn't be drifting much but it is a lot more fun and it's certainly more spectacular to watch it a movie and you can give me some poner sometime so there's a couple of different ways you can initiate a drift depending on how much speed you have you can come into the corner using the handbrake to create some rotation finish that off by you know using more throttle than you would need on that surface to spin the rear tires another great way to do it so what we just saw here which is the clutch kick which is while you're on the throttle if you just clutch in the engines gonna rev up and then when you clutch out again it's gonna shock load those rear tires into spinning and then creating oversteer around the corner it works when you've got about the right amount of speed for the corner but it's super useful to break the rear tires free when they don't really want to crashing a car transporter to [Music] so what you're looking at here is a couple of cop cars that crash into each other a little bit behind the scenes into some of what the stunt guys are doing here you can see underneath the vertical car where there's a few sort of metal rails that have been added on where the one car is gonna impact the bottom of it and then as that vehicle makes contact and breaks through that first car you can see there's nobody in that second cruiser at all so a car like this that you're gonna do some stunt driving with you're gonna want to make some safety modifications to the addition of a racing seat and real five-point seatbelts a racing harness is gonna make that a lot safer not bad to mother ever teach you to say thank you one additional thing that they probably fitted most of these cars is a dry cell battery a normal car battery in a collision the problem is that it's acid filled and that's nothing you want any of your people dealing with it's just not good so a regular dry cell battery like we would use a racecar is much safer and you can mount that in a safe location so that the more impact you take that battery in that fuel cell are still gonna be safe high-speed driving in Reverse Drive what you've got here is a five liter Mustang GT in a race with a Chrysler 300 which even if that is the souped-up version the Mustang is gonna just walk away from it any day so we're kind of departing from reality from the beginning it's good stunt-driving it was well-executed once he does his forward 180 which is probably just because it's on the kind of stunt-driving menu to pick from you can only go about as fast and reverse as you can in first year so now the other guys got a massive advantage and why didn't they say anything there's just no reason to ever tactically do that especially when your car can easily outrun the other one time travel back to the future again you really have to look at you know an air-cooled Volkswagen bus keeping up with a de Lorean DeLoreans were slow I'll give you that but they're not that slow an air-cooled little Volkswagen you would just drive away from it and the story would be over see if you can do 90 as far as getting up enough speed to travel through time when this baby hits 88 miles per hour they're gonna see some serious 88 miles an hour and all DeLorean with all of that stuff bolted in the back it could be a challenge you know in just a mall parking lot the answers tape you would ideally want a much longer stretch of road but conceivably sure he could get up to 88 and jump through time off-road driving die hard with a vengeance super fun scene to watch some high speed off-road driving in a taxicab the one kind of shout out that I'd have for that is the seatbelt thing how about we just skip down the deployer you tell me what this has to do with me maintaining good control of that vehicle and you're gonna be bouncing your head on the seal and your feet are coming off the pedals it's gonna be really ugly oh yeah asking me at element you gotta get your seatbelt on there's a couple of big jumps one in the park and one leaving the park getting back onto the pavement the main fear there is obviously you know broken suspension but really your oil pan crashing down on the road and get the hole in your oil pan and destroying the engine but you can see towards the end of this where there's actually a skid plate that they've added underneath the oil pan of the car to handle that last jump more SUVs an off-road oriented pickup trucks are gonna have some of that but in a normal sedan it's gonna be a little bit up to you to take that initiative and do some of that rugged izing on your own driving off a cliff Thelma and Louise [Music] all right so yeah nobody definitely would have survived what I like there though is that she did sort of preload the suspension with a little left foot brake and accelerate are you talking about one of the main reasons for left foot braking is to control the movement of the suspension if you were about to go off a jump for instance it might make sense to add a little left foot brake and that will compress those front Springs and then right before you go off of that jump release the brake full throttle and that spring is gonna unload and take the weight off of the front just like you went on a bicycle or a skateboard or anything else so it's really good driving it's great she's left foot braking but uh yeah nobody's gonna survive that one my god driving on two wheels the fate of the Furious so this is a really good stunt performed perfectly it's all real there's nothing sort of CG about it if you find yourself up on two wheels do what you need to do is turn whichever way at that point is downhill we'll put the car back down onto four wheels and if you turn uphill it would get you closer to and/or rolling over once you get used to that balance point what you're gonna need is one a lot of air pressure in your tires and two you need a locking differential a locking differential is going to set equal power to both driven wheels regardless of whether one's on ice and the others on pavement or ones in the air when you accelerate it'll still put power down even if your vehicle is only on two wheels precision parking ace venture when nature calls not at all obviously possible or advisable under any circumstance how do they do it in the movie though you can tell that initial rollover is caused by some kind of a charge you can see the land rover is driving along fine and then literally there's an explosion and underneath it almost that causes that vehicle to start tumbling in a big rollover and then later on when they go into their parking spot that vehicles literally just getting dropped from the crane for that really quick little 1 second shot you might want to think about getting this baby detail flipping a truck the dark night [Music] doesn't go to the odd set and watch that go down that's a real stunt that's a real truck doing a real flip would it happen like that in the real world absolutely not bull if you did somehow managed to stop the cab of an 18-wheeler they're really two very separate parts that are only connected by a trailer hitch essentially so it wouldn't all happen in one big piece like that you ought to know you bought it to do this stunt they created a really lightweight version of a tractor-trailer truck that was all one piece and mounted a huge nitrogen cannon in the back of it you can see that huge gas discharge again when the truck flips over but again it's not CG it's all real it's especially made rigged to do that one stunt but it's super cool canyon arrow The Simpsons wow this is roomy can you name the truck with pool wheel drive smells like a steak and seats 35 can you narrow narrow spectacular so the canyon arrow is kind of The Simpsons stab at the Americans love for large sport utility vehicles top of the line and utility sports unexplained fires are a matter for the court it climbs up a mountain of cars a metaphorical I'm sure physically to climb up a mountain of cars wouldn't happen the Federal Highway Commission has ruled the canyon arrow unsafe for highway or city driving driving through buildings bad boys too we see this a lot in a lot of different car chases and kind of action scenes cars driving through buildings this is the more dramatic one just because they're drug dealers shacks that explode when you hit them all right so no vehicle is actually ever gonna take this amount of abuse driving the Hummer h2 kind of our Canyon arrow and real life here is made by GM it's kind of an amalgamation what the hell is that supposed to mean essentially it's a Chevy truck with a body on it this scene it's super fun to watch there's explosions there's you know jumping cars many times over and crashing through buildings and all of this stuff but when it gets to the bottom and everybody drives away and the things still in one piece not gonna happen overcompensating tough guy jumping between two buildings Furious 7 as much fun as it is I think we all know on this one that yeah it's not anything that a normal car would ever handle oh boy what [Music] so in the second building when is breaks around you can't get the brakes to work easiest thing to do is most of the time shut the engine off or you can just do what they did in the third building which is get the car into a big skid get it sideways to the road and use that to get the vehicle slowed down and hopefully to a stop flipping a car Casino Royale all right so credit where credit's do that's all a real car it's all a real stunt and it was probably terrifying for whoever was in there they tried to roll the car with a standard kind of a ramp and they couldn't get it to roll it's so wide and it's so low what happens here is the cars driving along they deploy this gas cannon which flips the vehicle very quickly and this one actually set a record for the most times they've rolled a car side over side like that in the movies seven times total it could clean stunts pretty scary stuff the big bus jump from speed [Music] it's of course fake you would need a ramp of some kind just like you would on a bicycle or a skateboard or anything else to jump across a gap like that if you do need to go off a jump with a car you definitely want to get your speed sort of checked where you need to be and then be on the gas aggressively through that transition and off of that jump so that the car planes out reasonably well in the air jumping a car onto the highway Duke's a hazard [Applause] so again respect for using a real card not going the CG route I'm always ready to go that far really cool but yeah everyone would have died headed neck trauma back stuff silly things if you land a car that hard you're not gonna walk away from it so the most common way that you see these cars launched is just simply through the use of ramps and often again nitrogen charged Skoda gas cannons can provide a huge amount of acceleration thrust but yeah that's a real complete car that they somehow sent off a ramp and it what huge exhaust flames too fast too furious in a normal modern car you're not gonna see a lot of exhaust flames at all the problem is you would need a lot of unburnt air & fuel mixture going out of your exhaust pipe to create those flames and maybe people are doing that out there on the street to try and be cool but it's not something that's happening as a side benefit of making a lot of horsepower at all oil slick Nightrider so what you've got here is a pretty typical kind of spy gadget the old oil slick behind you it's been the guy out if you really did have some kind of an oil slick you'd want it to spread out and fan out a little better so if you do realize for some reason that the road ahead is really slippery be really smooth and light with any steering that you do and any throttle or brake that you try and apply while you're on that slippery surface brake nice and easy steer nice and easy otherwise you're gonna be spinning out and crashing into stuff all over the place talking while driving strange brew hey did you ever notice that like in movies that they when they're driving like they don't look at the road like for a long time keep going I never noticed that really cool to see them call this out and it's something that's super common and we've all seen driving along and you're just having a big chat and not really paying attention yeah that's because they're being told really by like a rig [Music] it's cuz that car is probably on a flatbed trailer they're just driving along getting towed by someone having a conversation conclusion it's really cool in this day and age to see so many filmmakers using real cars with real drivers doing real stunts going pretty big and doing some scary stuff and it looks like a lot of fun it could be so easy to do it all with computers and you know thank you so much everybody who's making these films for all of your hard work and we really do appreciate it and that's a wrap [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 16min 36sec (996 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 07 2019

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Also very useful for CoC 7th Ed specifically